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He looked in at the door and snickered, then in at the window, then peeked down from between the rafters and cachinnated till his sides must have ached; then struck an attitude upon the chimney, and fairly squealed with mirth and ridicule. In fact, he grew so obstreperous, and so disturbed our repose, that we had to "shoo" him away with one of our boots.
MacCall's voice sounded sharply on the morning air: "That pig! in that garden again! Shoo! Shoo, you beast! I wish you'd eat yourself to death and then maybe your master would keep you home!" "Oh, oh, oh!" squealed Agnes. "Con Murphy's pig after our cabbages!" "That pig again?" echoed Ruth, starting after the flying Agnes.
For which reason, one morning at eleven, taking Kwaque along, he called at Walter Merritt Emory's office and waited his turn in the crowded reception-room. "I think he's got cancer, Doc.," Daughtry said, while Kwaque was pulling off his shirt and undershirt. "He never squealed, you know, never peeped. That's the way of niggers.
Wondering, the others backed from the room. She watched them until they closed the door. Listening, they heard her lower the window. It squealed like a thing in fear. Ten minutes passed. The group in the hall conversed in whispers. "Why did she put the window down?" asked the wife of the inn-keeper, crossing herself. Drake shook his head. "I wonder what she is saying to him," he muttered.
"Nice way you have of showing it, now he's gone," roared Amos. "Just about the way you show your affection for me. Will nothing satisfy you? Norton and I never squealed when you and Billy got our claims taken away from us. Doesn't it occur to you it's about time you sacrificed something to me!" Lydia had never seen her father so angry before.
Vanya and Maroosia had jumped up to welcome him, and when he opened his big sheepskin coat, they tumbled into it together and clung to his belt. Then he closed the big woolly coat over the top of them and they squealed; and he opened it a little way and looked down at them over his beard, and then closed it again for a moment before letting them out.
She staggered forward, and Shepard missed his aim, striking the fat woman who squealed with pain. "I've got you now!" cried Burke, rushing for the ruffian with his stick. "No, you haven't!" hissed Shepard, a fighting animal to the last. He had whipped out a magazine gun from his coat pocket, and began firing point-blank. Burke threw his stick at the man, but it went wild.
"A Kentucky feud?" "It's very easy to understand when you know the code," Larry explained grimly. "Down here when an outfit thinks one of its members has squealed on them, it's their duty to be always on the watch for their chance to finish him off. I'm to be finished off that's all." "Say, young fellow, the life of a straight crook doesn't seem to be getting much simpler!
Jack never tamely suffered the intrusion of strangers; but such a stranger as this was beyond all patience; he seized him, shook him; the poor monkey squealed, the Italian bawled out for his companion, and Jack's mistress rushed to the window and rescued the unfortunate creature, just time enough to save him from Jack's final gripe.
What's done is done, and can't be undone. What's past remedy is past regret. And what can't be cured must be endured. The old man squealed, and had to be squelched, or he'd have brought the house about our ears " "Oh, my father! my dear father! my poor, murdered father!
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